₦airaland Forum

Hoelujohn:
That can't be tendered in the election tribunal because the time to file has passed. Tinubu has won this case already.

Jagabanofafrica:
Mumu Biafra people, Tinubu is ur next President .

favor914:
Sowore should team up with a presidential failure like himself in Peter Obi? Empty Barrel ipobians, go and support that Judas for Senator Anambra North 2027.

That is his level.

favor914:
Deceiving Himself & The Political Infants, President Indeed.

favor914:
Ok Sowore that you claim some Mumu Obidients were supporting in 2019, is now their enemy, What has changed in the last 4 years?

Confused Inconsequential Elements.

TemplarLandry:
Being at the helm of affairs in Nigeria.

Obiedun:
Does obi have good character?

TemplarLandry:
Sowore is a real G. I like that bros. His time is coming.

bennybuhari:
They are supposed to work together in order to liberate Nigeria from corrupt politicians but Omoyele Sowore is always attacking Peter Obi.

What could be responsible for that?

desoldhy:
Tinubu is hiding from DSS special Agent.

Naira20:
One thing I know is,
Tinubu will NEVER be President of Nigeria

Naira20:
Again I say unto you.
Tinubu Will NEVER be President of Nigeria

cktheluckyman:
Another Yaradua situation is about to happen.We might end up having Shettima as President if care is not taken

The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said Nigerians should pray for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, over his whereabouts.

One of Atiku’s spokespersons, Daniel Bwala, said Tinubu’s old photographs were posted as new ones.

Bwala said the posting of Tinubu’s old photograph suggests a cover-up regarding his whereabouts and state of health.

He lamented that Nigerians are not asking about Tinubu’s whereabouts but are focused on the presidential election petition.

Tweeting, Bwala wrote: “These unsolicited and unforced errors from Tinubu camp of releasing Tinubu’s old photos and videos suggesting recent events which have always been proved wrong suggest there may be a cover-up as to the whereabouts and state of health of Tinubu.

“What Tinubu needs from us as patriots are prayers and not the nonsense that the uncoordinated media minions around him continue to chunk out every now and then.

“Members of the opposition parties are not talking about his health or whereabouts but are focused on the election petition. But this focus-less media aids around him kept posting old photos and videos to suggest a recent event. Incompetence pro max.”

Eniitankorede:
Many of you are so ignorant and refuse to learn. Go and educate yourself on the case properly.

accordadoga27:
Tinubu this, Tinubu that.

Na so e terrify u people before election??

Tallesty1:
well Eniitankorede believes it was tax not drug money

Bola Ahmed Tinubu president-elect of Nigeria.
On 11 April, lawyers representing the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Election Petitions Court, Abuja, insisted that Bola Tinubu, the party’s candidate at the February 25 presidential election, was never indicted for any drug-related offenses. Due to a 1993 Illinois court judgment, Tinubu forfeited $460,000 in two of his bank accounts.

The forfeiture was the outcome of an investigation that linked over $2 million in several of Tinubu’s bank accounts to proceeds from the heroin trafficking of Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Chicago drug kingpins.

A certified true copy of the US court judgment resurfaced ahead of the 2023 general elections putting the president-elect’s past trouble with US law enforcement agencies in the spotlight.

Below is a timeline of the 30-year-old court case in local and international news.

January 1992

January 1992, Tinubu became the subject of a US federal investigation into heroin trafficking and money laundering in Illinois, Chicago.

July 26 1993

Signed copies of the US court document show bank accounts in Tinubu’s name were linked with drug trafficking and money laundering.

February 10, 2003

The Vanguard, a Nigerian daily, published a letter from the US Consulate in Lagos to Tafa Balogun, Inspector-General of Police, stating there was nothing in the records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicating Tinubu, who was running for reelection as Lagos state governor, had at any time in the past been arrested or wanted for crime in the US.

According to the letter signed by Michael Bonner, the legal attache in the Consulate, following a check of the records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Crime Information Centre (NCIC) said, “there were no criminal arrest records, wants, or warrants for Bola Ahmed Tinubu”.

2015/2017

The Daily Beast, a New York-based news website, published a story on April 27, 2015 (and updated April 14, 2017) that said Tinubu “had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.”

According to Michael Weiss, who wrote the story, “Although his case has been bandied about in the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere”.

July 13, 2022

Three months before the 2023 elections campaign kicked off, David Hundeyin, an independent journalist, revisited Tinubu’s narcotics-linked forfeiture with a story, Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord to Presidential Candidate. Published in his newsletter West Africa Weekly, Hundeyin’s investigation was the first detailed report to delve into the District Court of the Northern District of Illinois court documents from the 1993 heroin trafficking. The court document became widely accessible after Hundeyin uploaded it to Scribd.

A week later, search interest in the court documents more than quadrupled after PlainSite, a website dedicated to legal data transparency, posted it.

November 13, 2022

Hundeyin shared a link to a video version of his investigation on West Africa Weekly’s YouTube account and the video has gained over 360,000 views.

November 16, 2022

A certified true copy of the United State District Court for the Northern District of Illinois case against Tinubu for narcotics trafficking and money laundering is released online.

According to the document, the monies held in those forfeited accounts were proceeds from white heroin drug operations operated by Akande and his partners.

Akande had a strong and well-connected narcotics business, whose proceeds were substantial and kept in the forfeited bank accounts, the document shows.

April 10, 2023

UberFacts, a Twitter account that shares facts, published a certified copy of the drug trafficking and money laundering case involving Tinubu.

“In 1993, Bola Ahmed Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the US government after a Chicago court found the income came from heroin trafficking,” UberFacts’ tweet said.

The platform with 13.5 million followers gained 12.5 million views, 35,600 retweets, and 7,324 quotes in 24 hours because of this tweet. It is the most engaged Africa-related tweet of UberFacts which rarely posts facts about the continent.

April 10, 2023

Daily Loud, a Twitter account with 1.6 million followers, made the court documents a trending topic , tweeting that “In 1993, Bola Ahmed Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the U.S. government after a Chicago court found the income came from packing and shipping heroin.”

The tweet has since gained over 39,700 likes, 6.9 million views, 25,599 retweets and 5,943 quotes.

Africa Archives, in a Twitter thread said, Nigerian President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu was named as the owner of several bank accounts that were used to launder money for a heroin distribution network in Chicago, IL in the early 1990s. The members of the heroin ring were criminally charged in a separate case”. The thread has seen 1.4 million views in less than 24 hours. This reach has almost doubled that of the largest daily newspaper in the United States, Wall Street Journal that attained 698,000 reach daily in the first 6 months of 2022.

Within the space of nine months, July 2022 to August 2023, the drug case involving Tinubu has generated over 10 million engagements in likes, retweets, quotes, views and shares across various social media platforms.

The UberFacts tweet has been translated to Arabic, Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, Egyptian hieroglyphics, as well as braille, on Twitter. The braille version had over 7,000 views, and the hieroglyphics garnered 139,000 views as of Tuesday.

mightymuy:
Please what is the update from Osogbo immigration office

I don't really know what to do. Should I tell my wife so that we can get her accommodation or just let the sleeping dog be. Though I don't really want her to leave cos is my wife and the children are alone in the compound. I just want to kill that urge before I return from travel.

It is not the driver that knocks the pedestrian, but the car.

It is not the Yahoo boy that bought the Range Rover, but his account.

It is not the man that killed those in the bank in Louisville Kentucky, but his gun.

In the same way,

It is not Tinubu that was charged for drug money of $460,000, but his bank account.

#FacebookTelevision

kettykin:
They were expecting to see someone with outlandish appearance and large number of personal aides but hey they saw a simple gentleman, with no baggage and a simple mien. God bless you Peter Obi for simplifying bigmanship

Wahalawaha1a:
daddy e ni

Wahalawaha1a:
read it slowly

Wahalawaha1a:
una go just sit-down inside your dirty room with your cheap chinco phone for hand dey imagine stuffs in your head, and believe it to be true😂..
same head wey no gree work teach u how to make money for years now🙄

miceroms:
Looks like they threw this in first before delving into the details of the petition.